No, AWu. Brazil seems to buy exclusively from the West. Over-engineered German trinkets? Check. Pretty French and Italian equipment that doesn't do what it is supposedly designed to do? Check. Hyper-marketed Ameritrash that seems to function eerywhere EXCEPT in tropical environments? Check,check, check.

Ex-Soviet iron that looks like it was put together by a pride of drunken chimps on the take, but which is cheap, actually works, and can be maintained with a screwdriver and masking tape?